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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:31,197 --> 00:00:33,825 Yo! They can't stop us all! 2 00:00:33,908 --> 00:00:35,160 Can't stop us all! 3 00:00:35,952 --> 00:00:38,872 I don't even know why we're here. What are we doing? 4 00:00:39,456 --> 00:00:41,416 I am freaked the crap out. 5 00:00:41,499 --> 00:00:43,251 Dude, I wanna see them aliens! 6 00:00:50,216 --> 00:00:52,260 All right, now the final countdown is on. 7 00:00:52,343 --> 00:00:54,512 Thousands on their way to the Nevada Desert… 8 00:00:54,596 --> 00:00:56,973 …to storm Area 51. 9 00:00:57,057 --> 00:01:00,143 There are loads of cars here, you guys. Loads of cars. 10 00:01:00,935 --> 00:01:02,395 It's the middle of the night, 11 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:04,981 and we're heading out to the middle of nowhere. 12 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:07,025 I'm in a van with, like, eight strangers, 13 00:01:07,108 --> 00:01:11,321 and I'm on my way to, like, fucking goddamn Area 51. 14 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:14,157 I'm the most fucking terrified I've ever been in my goddamn life. 15 00:01:17,368 --> 00:01:18,453 We're about to storm 16 00:01:18,536 --> 00:01:21,748 one of the most heavily guarded military bases in the world. 17 00:01:21,831 --> 00:01:23,708 Our quest continues on foot. 18 00:01:24,292 --> 00:01:27,879 Why? Because the internet told us to. 19 00:01:28,505 --> 00:01:32,675 It's a Facebook event that started as a joke, but now very real. 20 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:37,555 Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth… 21 00:01:37,639 --> 00:01:40,058 Within 30 minutes, there'll be two million people here. 22 00:01:40,141 --> 00:01:41,267 -Really? -Yeah. 23 00:01:41,351 --> 00:01:42,185 Oh, okay. Sick. 24 00:01:43,686 --> 00:01:45,688 -You planning on raiding it? -Oh, absolutely. 25 00:01:46,898 --> 00:01:47,941 Why I got night vision. 26 00:01:48,024 --> 00:01:52,612 This is dangerous. This is a military base. It is guarded. 27 00:01:53,279 --> 00:01:57,158 I repeat. Anybody breaching Area 51 will be shot. 28 00:01:57,242 --> 00:01:59,828 Yeah, like, I'm legitimately-- we're concerned for our safety. 29 00:01:59,911 --> 00:02:02,789 3.5 million people have signed up 30 00:02:02,872 --> 00:02:05,291 to invade the base in search of UFOs. 31 00:02:05,375 --> 00:02:08,586 Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth! Tell us… 32 00:02:08,670 --> 00:02:11,506 We're here to rescue the aliens! 33 00:02:12,006 --> 00:02:14,843 Who's behind this? Some government disinformation plot? 34 00:02:14,926 --> 00:02:16,052 Is it the Chinese? 35 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:20,223 Tell us the truth! Tell us the truth… 36 00:02:20,306 --> 00:02:22,559 There's so many crazy people on the internet. 37 00:02:22,642 --> 00:02:24,227 There's people who do crazy things. 38 00:02:25,311 --> 00:02:28,565 There's just no way to know whether this is gonna be some dumb joke 39 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:31,484 or one of the bloodiest massacres in American history. 40 00:02:31,568 --> 00:02:33,319 Line up! 41 00:02:33,403 --> 00:02:34,946 How did it come to this? 42 00:02:35,029 --> 00:02:38,324 -Tell us the truth… -Three, two, one! 43 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:40,410 We're really asking, 44 00:02:40,493 --> 00:02:44,873 is anyone actually gonna be dumb enough to storm Area 51? 45 00:03:06,477 --> 00:03:09,731 Today is two-for-one on all Christmas cards. 46 00:03:09,814 --> 00:03:11,774 Get them early, make a statement. 47 00:03:13,401 --> 00:03:14,694 Malls are dead nowadays. 48 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:21,784 The only reason to go to the mall is because you work there. 49 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,415 In 2019, I was 20 years old. 50 00:03:28,416 --> 00:03:31,085 I guess I just looked like some loser at the vape kiosk. 51 00:03:39,135 --> 00:03:41,638 That day, I'm bored to tears. 52 00:03:42,388 --> 00:03:45,308 I'm just sitting there browsing YouTube. 53 00:03:47,018 --> 00:03:49,270 They turned the friggin' frogs gay! 54 00:03:49,354 --> 00:03:50,563 How dare you! 55 00:03:50,647 --> 00:03:54,943 What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? 56 00:03:55,026 --> 00:03:57,654 And I stumble upon this podcast. 57 00:03:57,737 --> 00:03:59,822 Get your hand off my penis! 58 00:04:00,907 --> 00:04:05,245 Two, one, boom. And we're live. For people who don't know the story, 59 00:04:05,328 --> 00:04:10,083 you used to work at Area 51. 60 00:04:11,459 --> 00:04:14,462 It's these guys talking about this top-secret government base. 61 00:04:15,129 --> 00:04:18,049 There's this facility that is in the side of a mountain. 62 00:04:22,679 --> 00:04:25,348 The first inkling I had, there were hangar doors open. 63 00:04:26,849 --> 00:04:28,643 And in the hangar was the disc. 64 00:04:29,936 --> 00:04:34,399 All these underground bunkers and fascinating technology. 65 00:04:35,483 --> 00:04:37,944 They had nine craft altogether. 66 00:04:38,027 --> 00:04:41,906 I thought, "Oh, my God, this finally explains all the flying saucer stories." 67 00:04:43,241 --> 00:04:46,327 It's a wild story. It-- it's fucking nuts. 68 00:04:48,663 --> 00:04:51,874 But it just gets filed into the back of my mind. 69 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:53,960 My shift ends and went home. 70 00:04:58,756 --> 00:04:59,924 My happy place. 71 00:05:01,968 --> 00:05:04,721 I have this shitposting account on Facebook. 72 00:05:09,225 --> 00:05:12,061 It's great because nobody knows who you are. 73 00:05:12,145 --> 00:05:16,274 You can post just like a digital diary of stupid shit. 74 00:05:16,357 --> 00:05:18,526 -Oh! Oh! -Memes. 75 00:05:20,653 --> 00:05:22,405 Random thoughts that came to mind. 76 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:26,117 Funny zingy one-liners. 77 00:05:27,994 --> 00:05:30,830 And it's called "Shitposting 'cause I'm in shambles." 78 00:05:34,208 --> 00:05:37,879 That night, I can't sleep. My mind's kind of going. 79 00:05:39,088 --> 00:05:41,341 What is the charge? 80 00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:44,635 When the mind runs free, it can be a powerful thing or a very dumb thing. 81 00:05:46,304 --> 00:05:47,180 Frogs gay! 82 00:05:47,263 --> 00:05:49,349 A succulent Chinese meal! 83 00:05:49,432 --> 00:05:50,516 Help me! 84 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:51,934 And then it comes to me. 85 00:05:54,228 --> 00:05:55,772 The ultimate shitpost. 86 00:05:57,148 --> 00:05:59,067 This top-secret military base. 87 00:05:59,150 --> 00:06:01,903 -Area 51… 51. -Area 51… 51. 88 00:06:01,986 --> 00:06:06,074 If the government won't tell us anything about it, what if… 89 00:06:07,909 --> 00:06:11,954 …every fool on the internet converged on Area 51? 90 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:16,250 What would they do? Shoot everyone? Just seemed like a hilarious idea to me. 91 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:20,963 Jokes are funnier when they're edgy, 92 00:06:21,047 --> 00:06:23,257 so I'd make it sound like a real call to arms. 93 00:06:38,356 --> 00:06:41,859 I just thought it would be a funny post for my page of 40 followers. 94 00:06:42,652 --> 00:06:44,195 I didn't think it'd go anywhere. 95 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:49,158 Wake up the next morning. 96 00:06:50,952 --> 00:06:52,703 I scroll back through the page. 97 00:06:53,871 --> 00:06:56,124 Check on and see how things are doing. 98 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,754 And I was like, "What the fuck?!" 99 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:11,347 This is just fucking crazy. 100 00:07:14,892 --> 00:07:17,603 Storm Area 51. Now that's a real cause. 101 00:07:18,855 --> 00:07:21,190 In, like, a three-day span, 102 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:25,820 there's just all these different people from all walks of life 103 00:07:25,903 --> 00:07:27,530 that have tagged themselves as going. 104 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,747 I'm just an adrenaline junkie. 105 00:07:36,831 --> 00:07:39,167 "There's gonna be a lot of adrenaline at this event." 106 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:40,126 Like… 107 00:07:42,587 --> 00:07:46,382 It's kind of facts. Like, everybody went crazy. 108 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:50,595 It was just so many different types of people coming together. 109 00:07:51,679 --> 00:07:54,307 You want "sexy alien"? I've got sexy alien. 110 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:56,851 Take my Earth virginity. 111 00:07:57,727 --> 00:07:59,520 Area 69. 112 00:08:01,189 --> 00:08:06,402 I'm a soul that normally lives in another dimension, in another realm. 113 00:08:08,196 --> 00:08:12,950 I'm from Adelaide, South Australia, and I was wanting to see some chaos, I think. 114 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:15,578 Don't ask me why I'm in my bra. 115 00:08:15,661 --> 00:08:18,372 It's a really long story and several margaritas later. 116 00:08:18,456 --> 00:08:22,168 "They can't stop us all." I was like, "Hell yeah, they can't stop us all." 117 00:08:25,421 --> 00:08:27,632 Love the smell of dead alien in the morning. 118 00:08:30,259 --> 00:08:33,721 I'll do anything. You gotta let us know what's in there. 119 00:08:33,804 --> 00:08:35,515 I gotta go. I have to go. 120 00:08:35,598 --> 00:08:38,768 This is going to be in the history books, and I wanna be there for it. 121 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:43,523 It was unbelievable. 122 00:08:45,274 --> 00:08:47,944 And it was a moment of excitement and panic, 123 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,655 just seeing the sheer amount of people that have, 124 00:08:50,738 --> 00:08:53,449 for some reason, signed up for this event. 125 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:58,120 I figured I have to tell my mom, give the poor lady a heart attack. 126 00:09:03,918 --> 00:09:06,879 I don't do Facebook, so I don't really understand it. 127 00:09:12,176 --> 00:09:13,886 We were just up around the house. 128 00:09:13,970 --> 00:09:16,514 And he came into the kitchen, 129 00:09:16,597 --> 00:09:19,100 and he's like, "You're not gonna believe this," 130 00:09:19,183 --> 00:09:21,310 and showed me this event. 131 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,816 Ten thousand people. That's a lot of bodies. 132 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:32,363 I honestly didn't really know much about Area 51. 133 00:09:32,989 --> 00:09:35,283 I looked it up to see what it was. 134 00:09:38,869 --> 00:09:42,915 Built in 1955, yet there is no official documentation. 135 00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:46,043 The US military's most secretive base. 136 00:09:48,504 --> 00:09:52,383 This is a secret military base, and you told people to go and break in? 137 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:56,762 Guards are authorized to arrest anyone who crosses. 138 00:09:56,846 --> 00:09:57,680 Get down! 139 00:09:57,763 --> 00:10:00,016 Use of deadly force is authorized. 140 00:10:00,725 --> 00:10:03,561 Police shot and killed a man who entered the federal site 141 00:10:03,644 --> 00:10:06,439 where the government used to test nuclear bombs. 142 00:10:06,522 --> 00:10:08,274 Oh, Matthew. What'd you do? 143 00:10:08,357 --> 00:10:10,067 People might not understand that it's a joke. 144 00:10:10,693 --> 00:10:12,945 You could get in a lot of trouble, you know? 145 00:10:13,988 --> 00:10:16,240 Maybe you should back up a little bit. 146 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:19,368 I told her the event itself is hosted 147 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,871 by a page called "Shitposting 'cause I'm in shambles." 148 00:10:21,954 --> 00:10:24,957 Like, it's in the name that it is a joke. 149 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:30,796 But I said, "Okay, Mom. Don't worry about it. I'll solve it." 150 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:37,428 So I added a line to the description 151 00:10:37,511 --> 00:10:41,891 saying that if we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. 152 00:10:45,269 --> 00:10:48,606 It's a run from anime. 153 00:10:50,191 --> 00:10:52,068 I was just trying to help calm things down, 154 00:10:52,151 --> 00:10:54,362 but the whole thing exploded even more. 155 00:10:54,445 --> 00:10:58,282 Naruto run, Naruto run to Area 51 Too fast! 156 00:10:58,366 --> 00:11:01,369 Naruto run, Naruto run to Area 51 157 00:11:01,452 --> 00:11:03,079 This has gone absolutely nuts! 158 00:11:05,247 --> 00:11:07,792 So let me show you what's going on here. 159 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:17,343 Before you know it, it's top trending on TikTok, Instagram. 160 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:21,889 And suddenly, the event page is flooded with all kinds of memes. 161 00:11:24,809 --> 00:11:26,602 Everybody's competing for clicks. 162 00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:34,610 Trust 163 00:11:34,694 --> 00:11:37,154 Oh, my God, these are great. 164 00:11:43,786 --> 00:11:47,998 This one guy had just gone absolutely crazy in Microsoft Paint 165 00:11:48,082 --> 00:11:50,000 and made a battle plan. 166 00:11:51,043 --> 00:11:53,879 Oh, the attack plan. 167 00:11:56,924 --> 00:11:58,843 You've got all these different tribes. 168 00:11:59,969 --> 00:12:02,138 Kyles. Kyles being the first wave. 169 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:04,807 What's up, ET? You want some? 170 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:07,017 Fuck you, Dad! 171 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:08,352 They're the bulky guys, right? 172 00:12:09,145 --> 00:12:11,021 Uh, we've got anti-vax kids. 173 00:12:11,105 --> 00:12:15,192 My body, my choice! My body, my choice! 174 00:12:15,276 --> 00:12:17,862 And then of course, we've gotta send in some Karens. 175 00:12:18,696 --> 00:12:22,158 How dare you! I've been waiting in line for 15 minutes! 176 00:12:22,241 --> 00:12:24,869 Why were the Karens gonna be there? What were the Karens gonna do? 177 00:12:24,952 --> 00:12:26,996 Um, they just wanna speak to the manager. 178 00:12:27,079 --> 00:12:29,331 The Karens. 179 00:12:30,666 --> 00:12:33,669 Yeah, that looks like a pretty well-thought-out plan. 180 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:37,173 There might be some ex-military personnel behind, uh, this plan. 181 00:12:39,967 --> 00:12:43,429 Oh, my God, it was completely the internet eating itself. 182 00:12:45,222 --> 00:12:47,850 Now I'm suddenly this renegade guy 183 00:12:47,933 --> 00:12:50,770 that's got this group of people where everything I say is funny. 184 00:12:50,853 --> 00:12:53,564 It was just batshit crazy. 185 00:12:53,647 --> 00:12:55,983 I had no idea what I'd started. 186 00:13:04,575 --> 00:13:07,161 We know we can't just walk up to Area 51 alone, 187 00:13:07,244 --> 00:13:08,954 but what if people actually show up? 188 00:13:09,038 --> 00:13:10,831 What's the government gonna do to stop us? 189 00:13:10,915 --> 00:13:13,125 And if they do, what are they trying to hide? 190 00:13:13,209 --> 00:13:15,336 I'm gonna ask people to see what they think. 191 00:13:15,419 --> 00:13:18,088 It was weird. All of a sudden, everybody was talking about aliens. 192 00:13:19,131 --> 00:13:21,342 Back then, I was doing short-form content for Vice Media, 193 00:13:21,425 --> 00:13:24,053 and I was working with this comedian named Dee. 194 00:13:24,136 --> 00:13:28,766 And we thought, "Wouldn't it be fun to do something on this Storm Area 51 thing?" 195 00:13:28,849 --> 00:13:30,184 Aliens are real as fuck. 196 00:13:30,267 --> 00:13:32,061 -Would you date an alien? -Yes! 197 00:13:32,144 --> 00:13:34,396 Put a microphone in somebody's face and be like, 198 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,732 "Hey, I'm talking to you about something weird." 199 00:13:40,861 --> 00:13:43,531 If there are aliens, do you think they're more advanced than we are? 200 00:13:43,614 --> 00:13:45,533 Probably dumb as fuck 'cause we dumb as fuck too. 201 00:13:45,616 --> 00:13:49,203 -Do you have a message for them? -Uh, do you guys have weed? 202 00:13:49,286 --> 00:13:52,164 I couldn't believe there was all this language and culture 203 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:55,209 that was built around this Facebook event. 204 00:13:55,292 --> 00:13:57,628 You ready for Area 51? Whoo! 205 00:13:57,711 --> 00:13:59,755 Naruto. Naruto. How the fuck do you say that? 206 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:02,883 Aliens are awesome, and people are obsessed. 207 00:14:02,967 --> 00:14:05,261 There was something unique about this story, 208 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:07,054 so I had to stay on it. 209 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:10,683 The almost ingenious thing about this is, 210 00:14:10,766 --> 00:14:12,476 unlike other memes, which have their… 211 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:13,894 …flash in the pan, 212 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:16,188 this one has an event. 213 00:14:16,272 --> 00:14:19,441 We're gonna meet there in 72 days. 214 00:14:20,484 --> 00:14:21,902 It becomes this ticking time bomb, 215 00:14:22,987 --> 00:14:27,157 where momentum is gonna just continue to build until that event. 216 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:30,411 More people are gonna get swept up into this tornado of a meme. 217 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:34,748 Everyone's just wondering to themselves, like, "How is this going to play out?" 218 00:14:34,832 --> 00:14:37,626 Because 500,000 people have signed up to storm Area 51. 219 00:14:37,710 --> 00:14:40,337 If they did, could the government stop them? 220 00:14:40,421 --> 00:14:42,089 That was our stakes, right? 221 00:14:43,299 --> 00:14:47,177 The military are authorized to use deadly force. 222 00:14:47,261 --> 00:14:50,014 This is an internet craze where people could really get killed. 223 00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:54,101 It just was like, "Oh, my God, what's gonna happen?" 224 00:14:55,769 --> 00:14:58,397 I thought, "For God's sake, this is just a joke." 225 00:14:59,607 --> 00:15:01,734 Nobody's actually planning on going there. 226 00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:05,070 I mean, where the hell even is Area 51? 227 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:44,485 We're the only place on the highway. 228 00:15:49,281 --> 00:15:50,908 The only bathroom. 229 00:15:53,202 --> 00:15:57,623 The only ones in all of this space. 230 00:16:06,090 --> 00:16:07,174 We have a restaurant, 231 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:09,301 camping space… 232 00:16:11,345 --> 00:16:13,180 and ten rooms. That's it. 233 00:16:18,602 --> 00:16:20,938 July 11th, our phone started ringing. 234 00:16:22,898 --> 00:16:25,484 Somebody wanted to rent a camping spot. 235 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:29,321 As soon as I hung up with that person… 236 00:16:30,698 --> 00:16:32,449 …the phone was ringing again. 237 00:16:32,533 --> 00:16:34,535 Can you hold on? 238 00:16:34,618 --> 00:16:36,829 Any time we hung up the phone… 239 00:16:38,038 --> 00:16:40,374 …it was ringing. It was insane. 240 00:16:42,042 --> 00:16:45,838 Everybody was wanting to come, you know, like, the 20th of September. 241 00:16:45,921 --> 00:16:47,756 I thought, "What is going on?" 242 00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:54,179 I ain't got time for that shit. 243 00:16:54,263 --> 00:16:57,474 We have ten rooms. That's it. You can only book ten rooms. 244 00:16:59,643 --> 00:17:04,606 Within 24 hours, we had booked 500 camping spots. 245 00:17:05,983 --> 00:17:08,736 I had no idea what was going on 246 00:17:08,819 --> 00:17:12,698 until a little boy came in and said, 247 00:17:12,781 --> 00:17:15,534 "Ma'am, this guy made this meme." 248 00:17:15,617 --> 00:17:16,785 "Here, look." 249 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,293 And I'm looking at it and I'm like, "This is stupid." 250 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,296 "Who-- who in their right mind 251 00:17:27,379 --> 00:17:30,758 is gonna try to cross the boundaries at Area 51?" 252 00:17:31,258 --> 00:17:32,593 You know, "They're gonna die." 253 00:17:38,265 --> 00:17:40,559 You cross the boundary of Area 51, 254 00:17:40,642 --> 00:17:43,479 you might get shot or gonna picked up by me. 255 00:17:47,399 --> 00:17:50,778 I was raised here in Lincoln County. 256 00:17:50,861 --> 00:17:53,155 Been here pretty much my entire life. 257 00:17:54,865 --> 00:17:56,700 You thought you'd get rid of me. See, you can't. 258 00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:59,078 -You're like a bad penny. -I know. 259 00:17:59,828 --> 00:18:01,246 You discuss with other sheriffs. 260 00:18:01,330 --> 00:18:03,582 They're like, "Area 51? That's in your county?" 261 00:18:03,665 --> 00:18:05,167 "Yeah, that's in our county." 262 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:09,171 I've got every alien hunter from across the globe that wants to come. 263 00:18:10,547 --> 00:18:12,424 So when my friend texted me and said, 264 00:18:12,508 --> 00:18:15,302 "Hey, have you-- have you seen this, uh, post?" 265 00:18:15,385 --> 00:18:17,721 I thought, "Oh, boy. Here we go again." 266 00:18:17,805 --> 00:18:21,475 "Another one of those wacko things that-- that people say, 267 00:18:21,558 --> 00:18:22,851 and it never really happens." 268 00:18:25,479 --> 00:18:27,272 I didn't really know what a meme was. 269 00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:30,651 I didn't know what the potential of that meme could be. 270 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:34,613 It wasn't till the days progressed 271 00:18:34,696 --> 00:18:37,241 and-- and things started getting bigger and bigger, 272 00:18:37,324 --> 00:18:41,662 I thought, "Oh, this isn't just funny anymore." 273 00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:55,634 We have less than 12 officers, including the sheriff, 274 00:18:55,717 --> 00:18:59,388 um, to police an 11,000 square-mile county. 275 00:18:59,471 --> 00:19:02,099 We're designed to police 5,000 or 6,000 people. 276 00:19:02,891 --> 00:19:06,395 Yeah, if a tourist gets into trouble, we can run an officer out there. 277 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:09,064 But once you start talking about multiple people, 278 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,483 even a group of more than a dozen, 279 00:19:11,567 --> 00:19:13,527 you're-- you're talking about a big deal. 280 00:19:13,610 --> 00:19:14,987 And then so when you're talking 281 00:19:15,070 --> 00:19:19,867 about the scale that this Storm Area 51 was at, 282 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,243 then you really get scared. 283 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,918 In viral news… 284 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:33,797 for decades, Americans have wanted to know 285 00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:37,843 what secrets are contained within the walls of Area 51. 286 00:19:37,926 --> 00:19:40,387 Now the nation's morons have had enough, 287 00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:42,890 and they're going to find out for themselves. 288 00:19:44,099 --> 00:19:47,603 It's like the hype never stopped. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger. 289 00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:50,522 Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users 290 00:19:50,606 --> 00:19:51,940 are signing up all the time… 291 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:56,403 …exploded into a worldwide phenomenon, and it's growing bigger by the hour. 292 00:19:56,486 --> 00:20:00,532 And of course, at that point, the mainstream media jumped in hard too. 293 00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:03,744 It's interesting how fast the whole thing has taken off. 294 00:20:03,827 --> 00:20:06,496 "Storm Area 51, they can't stop all of us." 295 00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:10,250 Maybe not, but they can stop some of you. 296 00:20:10,334 --> 00:20:14,421 All of a sudden, this is so mainstream that Miley Cyrus is posting about this. 297 00:20:14,504 --> 00:20:16,340 Singer Lizzo and actor Danny Trejo 298 00:20:16,423 --> 00:20:18,842 also have shared their own Area 51 memes. 299 00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:20,302 Billie Eilish. 300 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:22,930 Elon Musk. 301 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,390 The Jonas Brothers. 302 00:20:28,352 --> 00:20:32,272 Everyone who is something is gonna raid Area 51. 303 00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:35,317 So now the meme has left this small niche internet community, 304 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,735 and it's gone global. 305 00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:40,072 It's gone mainstream. And now there's more intrigue, 306 00:20:40,155 --> 00:20:42,449 and of course, there's more fuel on the fire. 307 00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:45,911 Within a month, it was over a million people. 308 00:20:53,752 --> 00:20:58,882 That to me was, "We're viral-viral." I was like, "Where does it go from here?" 309 00:21:04,513 --> 00:21:08,016 Oh, nice. Was that filmed at Area 51? 310 00:21:11,645 --> 00:21:12,479 Oh, shit. 311 00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:18,318 This has almost a million views and an 81% rating. 312 00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:21,947 Wow! People like the alien sex. 313 00:21:23,865 --> 00:21:25,909 PornHub searches for Area 51 content 314 00:21:25,993 --> 00:21:30,539 went from zero to 160,000 searches in four days. 315 00:21:32,416 --> 00:21:36,920 So the meme got a new mantra. And that was, "Clap them alien cheeks." 316 00:21:38,797 --> 00:21:40,674 I'm trying to clap me some alien cheeks. 317 00:21:40,757 --> 00:21:41,883 You wanna clap my cheeks? 318 00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,094 I gotta get my hands on some alien cheeks. 319 00:21:45,095 --> 00:21:49,349 I wanna have sexual intercourse with an alien. 320 00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:50,809 Ah, jeez. 321 00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:58,525 Anytime there's something culturally relevant on the internet, 322 00:21:58,608 --> 00:22:00,235 there's gonna be people who wanna cash in. 323 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,113 You're guaranteed likes. You're guaranteed shares. 324 00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:05,699 Aliens, money, yes, yes, yes! 325 00:22:05,782 --> 00:22:07,200 Like, cash it in. 326 00:22:09,036 --> 00:22:10,912 I saw this as an opportunity. 327 00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:14,583 Okay, I can make my first YouTube video here at Area 51. 328 00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:21,340 I decided to do a TikTok there to promote my, like, acting career and my music. 329 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,136 We knew it would be amazing content. 330 00:22:26,219 --> 00:22:29,306 -It's a hate-free show, God damn it! -What? 331 00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:31,933 We are gonna dress as sexy aliens. 332 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:34,978 We are going out to the desert, and we're getting probed. 333 00:22:36,146 --> 00:22:39,107 Memes. Porn. Music. 334 00:22:39,649 --> 00:22:41,693 Video content. Celebrities. 335 00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:47,366 Somehow this post that I've created has checked all the boxes. 336 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,826 I've got lightning in a bottle. 337 00:22:50,911 --> 00:22:53,288 I felt like I was standing on the doorstep of fame, 338 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,999 and all you really have to do is ring the doorbell. 339 00:23:03,673 --> 00:23:05,801 Just digging through the Facebook page, 340 00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:08,887 there's a whole litany of messages in here. 341 00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:12,182 And then I saw a message that really stood out. 342 00:23:13,558 --> 00:23:17,896 Saying, "Why don't you throw this little EDM party out in the desert 343 00:23:17,979 --> 00:23:19,022 right by Area 51?" 344 00:23:20,482 --> 00:23:22,234 Drag out a couple generators… 345 00:23:23,985 --> 00:23:27,948 …sound system, and you bring your friends. 346 00:23:30,033 --> 00:23:32,244 So I said, "Fuck yeah, let's do it." 347 00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:34,871 Fuck yeah. Let's do it! 348 00:23:36,706 --> 00:23:40,502 And this guy, he told me, "You wanna hold a party for a million people?" 349 00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,131 "There's only one man I know that can handle an event that big." 350 00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:55,684 Disco Donnie presents the movie. 351 00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:00,188 Okay. 352 00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,359 My name is Disco Donnie. 353 00:24:06,069 --> 00:24:08,280 Some people call me one of the godfathers of EDM. 354 00:24:09,823 --> 00:24:11,074 I've worked with everybody. 355 00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:18,165 So I was at my place on the beach, and I got this call. 356 00:24:21,918 --> 00:24:23,712 A promoter in Arkansas that I knew 357 00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:28,758 was explaining that this Area 51 post has gone viral. 358 00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:33,597 And he asked me if I wanted to get involved and do a festival. 359 00:24:34,514 --> 00:24:37,058 I was like, "Sure. Uh, when is it?" 360 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:39,895 And they said, "Well, in September." 361 00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:43,815 I said, "Two months from now? No way. That's crazy." 362 00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:46,318 "Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do that." 363 00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:50,155 Normally, we'd have at least eight months to plan. 364 00:24:50,238 --> 00:24:52,824 And on this one, we only had eight weeks. 365 00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:57,078 And when I looked to see where they were trying to do it, 366 00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:58,705 it was in the middle of the desert. 367 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:02,918 I knew it was, like, impossible, 368 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:06,254 but I also didn't wanna be left on the sideline. 369 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:08,173 This could be it. 370 00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,636 I started reaching out to my contacts. 371 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,890 I wanted to make sure that all the infrastructure was in place. 372 00:25:17,766 --> 00:25:20,769 Just everything that you would need for a show. 373 00:25:22,896 --> 00:25:25,857 They had nothing. All they had was a Facebook page. 374 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,653 We only had two things going for us. 375 00:25:29,736 --> 00:25:32,656 Nobody knew who we were, and nobody knew what we were planning. 376 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,282 So I told Matty, 377 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:39,329 "Don't say anything about this in public until we are sure we can make it happen." 378 00:25:42,749 --> 00:25:45,669 Everybody was trying to reach out, wanted to know who he was. 379 00:25:45,752 --> 00:25:46,795 Whose page is this? 380 00:25:48,046 --> 00:25:51,258 It could be some sort of 300-pound man in his basement. 381 00:25:51,341 --> 00:25:52,884 It could be some hipster from Brooklyn 382 00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:55,595 who was writing some piece for The New Yorker. 383 00:25:56,846 --> 00:25:58,974 We didn't know who this person was. 384 00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:02,185 Who was "I'm shitposting because I'm in shambles"? 385 00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:07,649 I just didn't want him to have negative attention. 386 00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:11,444 I was like, "Matthew, you've gotta be very careful." 387 00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:14,239 "If it goes bad, I mean, they know who you are." 388 00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:16,241 "You're the one they're gonna come after." 389 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,703 "I really think you should stay anonymous." 390 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,291 Then the next morning, I was at home. 391 00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:27,460 And I look out the window, and he's on the news, 392 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:29,421 running down the street in a costume. 393 00:26:29,504 --> 00:26:31,506 Oh! 394 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:33,675 He's the 20-year-old college student 395 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:36,219 behind a plan to storm Area 51. 396 00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,139 And I was just like, "Oh, my gosh, Matthew." 397 00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,558 It's just meant to be funny. I wanna do something cool. 398 00:26:41,641 --> 00:26:43,560 I was like, "Ugh, Jesus." 399 00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:45,854 Maybe music and art. That's what I'm working on. 400 00:26:45,937 --> 00:26:49,399 I've got all these reporters asking me to be on TV and give them an interview. 401 00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:53,987 And I figured, "When am I ever gonna get this chance again? Fuck it." 402 00:26:57,824 --> 00:27:02,287 So now the meme has yet another meme attached to it, 403 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:03,747 and it's me. 404 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:09,294 Oh, my God, I love his outfit. Yes, that's so sick. 405 00:27:09,377 --> 00:27:12,339 It was like, "Oh, yeah, that's the guy." 406 00:27:12,422 --> 00:27:13,632 "It's that guy." 407 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:15,884 Some random dude 408 00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:19,804 who just thought of a funny concept and wanted to post about it. 409 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:22,849 I just created a joke while I was playing video games, man, 410 00:27:22,932 --> 00:27:25,727 and it's taken off to this, like, absolutely wild monster. 411 00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:29,898 Man, that guy's a legend. What a legend. I wanna hang out with that guy. 412 00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,274 Then it's like… 413 00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:32,359 …you're a household name. 414 00:27:32,442 --> 00:27:34,653 Matty Roberts revealing his identity. 415 00:27:34,736 --> 00:27:35,570 Matty Roberts. 416 00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:39,115 Matty Roberts. 417 00:27:39,199 --> 00:27:42,744 On my Facebook, all the people I went to high school with were like, 418 00:27:42,827 --> 00:27:46,498 "Oh, wow, I was best friends with the Area 51 guy." 419 00:27:47,582 --> 00:27:51,002 "Dude, I had three friends in high school. You weren't one of 'em." 420 00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:55,674 Little kids would fangirl. "Oh, my gosh. It's Matty." 421 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:59,219 It's like, "This is our leader." 422 00:28:00,595 --> 00:28:03,973 He's like our Moses, you know. He's our guide through the meme sea, 423 00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:07,143 who can dictate what this event is gonna do. 424 00:28:07,727 --> 00:28:09,145 The whole thing was hysterical. 425 00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:13,483 But it was putting the cart before the horse. 426 00:28:13,566 --> 00:28:15,610 Now you told people you're really doing an event. 427 00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:19,948 That put the real pressure on to actually do something. 428 00:28:20,031 --> 00:28:22,784 Clock's ticking, and we don't even have a venue. 429 00:28:23,576 --> 00:28:27,831 Where do you host a million people in the middle of the desert? 430 00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:37,632 It started out as just from a pure stroke of imagination. 431 00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:41,469 Honestly, I was quite annoyed because I thought to myself, 432 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:44,139 "Do you realize what this could do?" 433 00:28:44,639 --> 00:28:46,391 Um, I don't think he cared. 434 00:28:47,851 --> 00:28:50,937 That punk kid. That's who we were dealing with. 435 00:28:51,813 --> 00:28:53,648 You dress up for the cameras and run around. 436 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,817 Okay, you're having fun with it. Great. 437 00:28:55,900 --> 00:28:58,278 But what it's bringing to my world, 438 00:28:59,112 --> 00:29:00,363 it was a lot. 439 00:29:02,198 --> 00:29:05,326 In Rachel, Nevada, population just 56 people, 440 00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,871 visitor numbers are suddenly out of this world. 441 00:29:09,038 --> 00:29:12,208 All we can do is what we can do. Nothing more. Nothing less. 442 00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:15,253 The news media started showing up. 443 00:29:15,336 --> 00:29:17,797 Then they didn't stop coming. It was insane. 444 00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:23,511 I'm thinking, if I ever get my hands on this punk kid, 445 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:26,347 there's no way in hell he'll ever step foot in my business. 446 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:27,682 Screw you. 447 00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:41,321 I'm just hyped. It's exciting. Something's happening. 448 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,825 Our plan was to just go out there, 449 00:29:45,909 --> 00:29:49,996 check out a few places in proximity to Area 51. 450 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:54,751 I'm leaving my wife and family to go to Las Vegas 451 00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:58,755 to do this impossible festival in the middle of the desert 452 00:29:58,838 --> 00:30:00,840 with people I've never even met. 453 00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:15,522 Donnie rented this dark red SRT8 Charger. 454 00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,650 Just immaculate. 455 00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:23,905 We started heading out towards Area 51. 456 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,660 I mean, this was into the middle of nowhere. 457 00:30:33,039 --> 00:30:37,043 Once you're driving, you realize Nevada is just a desert. 458 00:30:39,379 --> 00:30:41,339 It's like a scene from a fucking movie. 459 00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:47,887 But I was thinking, like, "Oh, shit, this is bad. This is all bad." 460 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:55,019 Just imagine you're bringing 10,000 people out here. 461 00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:56,855 You're responsible for them. 462 00:30:59,983 --> 00:31:02,151 My advice was just do the show in Vegas. 463 00:31:03,736 --> 00:31:05,947 But I don't think Matty was really listening. 464 00:31:07,991 --> 00:31:09,576 Area 51 is cool. 465 00:31:09,659 --> 00:31:14,831 Why would you come halfway here when you can go all the way there? 466 00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:21,045 Three hours, I'm starting to think there's nothing out here. 467 00:31:23,214 --> 00:31:25,258 Then we come up, and here's the A'Le'Inn. 468 00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:47,238 I was at my house. 469 00:31:47,947 --> 00:31:50,491 And my niece called me. 470 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,662 "Aunt Connie, that kid who made that meme, 471 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:58,541 he's standing in the bar and just asked to talk to you." I said, "Oh, really?" 472 00:31:58,625 --> 00:32:00,418 "Oh, I will be right there." 473 00:32:07,383 --> 00:32:10,803 She comes out and looks at me. 474 00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:13,932 "Oh, you're that asshole that started this?" 475 00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:17,226 I'm just like, "I'm so sorry." 476 00:32:18,353 --> 00:32:19,771 I bet you're not. 477 00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:24,442 That was our introduction to Connie. She should have killed us. 478 00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:27,695 And so she sits down. 479 00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:31,783 I was like, "What do you want?" 480 00:32:32,283 --> 00:32:34,619 We're looking for a place to do an event. 481 00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:37,121 "We can have this EDM festival." 482 00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,332 "And we'll provide everything." 483 00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:42,001 "The stages 484 00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:45,129 and the entertainment, security and medical." 485 00:32:45,838 --> 00:32:49,884 "The only things that we need you to have is the land and the permit." 486 00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:55,223 I think she realized it could be a good opportunity for her. 487 00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:57,892 If I'm gonna profit, why not? 488 00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:01,354 So I walked them around the property. 489 00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:13,199 Which was just basically, like, a big plot of sand. 490 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,746 This would be the worst place in the whole world to do a festival. 491 00:33:20,498 --> 00:33:23,501 But once he saw that place, that was it. 492 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:27,630 In the desert right next to Area 51. 493 00:33:29,048 --> 00:33:31,259 It was just a light bulb moment. 494 00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:34,637 Matty was like, "Where do we sign?" 495 00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:42,687 Now I have this insane event that I have to plan for. 496 00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:45,356 I had no idea what I was doing. 497 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,649 No clue. 498 00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:51,821 We thought it'd be easy, just get a couple of speakers, slap them in the sand, 499 00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:54,574 get some generators, and we'd be good to go. 500 00:33:54,657 --> 00:33:58,286 They just had no idea, like, all the stuff that needed to take place. 501 00:33:58,369 --> 00:33:59,787 Now we have six weeks. 502 00:34:10,381 --> 00:34:12,258 That was a really cool moment, 503 00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:16,262 but that was also when all the problems started. 504 00:34:19,974 --> 00:34:21,809 We thought we should have a website. 505 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,731 We called it "Raid Rachel." 506 00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:32,653 Raid Rachel. Really? You're gonna raid our properties? 507 00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:34,572 Now this is something alarming. 508 00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:36,949 We certainly don't wanna be raided. 509 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,999 Out of the blue, I'm getting a call from the Little A'Le'Inn 510 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,918 that they are planning an event in Rachel. 511 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:49,962 I was completely taken off guard. 512 00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:56,594 They already had the website up, saying we are going to take over Rachel, 513 00:34:56,677 --> 00:34:59,639 and the locals are on board with this. 514 00:35:00,223 --> 00:35:01,182 We were not on board. 515 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:04,435 How can Rachel, 516 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:09,607 a town of 25 to 50 people on a good day, host a million people? 517 00:35:09,690 --> 00:35:11,234 How are we gonna deal with it? 518 00:35:11,317 --> 00:35:14,570 This was something that could potentially destroy our town, 519 00:35:14,654 --> 00:35:17,073 and I was not going to let that happen. 520 00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,537 Joerg was very vocal. 521 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,705 He was like, "You can't do that." 522 00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,959 This is crazy. I'm in disbelief. 523 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:32,964 He just told me, you know, over his dead body is this gonna happen. 524 00:35:33,047 --> 00:35:34,757 Basically told me to fuck off. 525 00:35:36,509 --> 00:35:39,595 And I knew I had a battle on my hands. 526 00:35:43,516 --> 00:35:45,351 We went out there. We saw this motel, 527 00:35:45,434 --> 00:35:49,230 and I didn't even consider the fact that other people actually live there. 528 00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:54,944 Well, it was all of a sudden, it was gonna be a festival. 529 00:35:55,027 --> 00:35:58,489 Some kind of late night rough-ass party. 530 00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:01,075 The A'Le'Inn was gonna sponsor it. 531 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,703 People in this tiny little town, they live there for a reason. 532 00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:06,831 Now suddenly, some dickhead from California 533 00:36:06,914 --> 00:36:08,708 is bringing a million people over there. 534 00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:12,295 They started having meetings. 535 00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:15,256 At some point, you gotta say, "Wait a minute. 536 00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:17,717 You know, we can't handle this." 537 00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:22,096 I wrote letters to whoever I could think of. 538 00:36:23,222 --> 00:36:24,557 They were hateful. 539 00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:28,519 It felt like I was in a war zone. 540 00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:33,107 But nobody was gonna derail me from running my business. 541 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:35,693 That was the moment I realized 542 00:36:35,776 --> 00:36:39,739 this might not be as easy as I thought it would be. 543 00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:45,203 I'm thinking, "We need to find a way to stop this." 544 00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:48,456 And we had one big hope. 545 00:36:56,380 --> 00:37:00,843 There's nothing funny about two million people wanting to storm Area 51. 546 00:37:06,933 --> 00:37:08,351 The Nevada Test and Training Range 547 00:37:08,434 --> 00:37:11,187 is the most tactically important Air Force base in the entire world. 548 00:37:12,104 --> 00:37:15,316 This is the place where we tested out the U-2, 549 00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:19,028 the F-117 and the Stealth Bomber. 550 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,574 The security forces, we call them our defenders, guard the base. 551 00:37:24,450 --> 00:37:27,870 All of them are organized, trained and equipped to accomplish that mission. 552 00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:29,872 They're very, very good at their job. 553 00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:33,417 They rose their right hand and would swear 554 00:37:33,501 --> 00:37:35,378 to protect the Constitution against all enemies, 555 00:37:36,003 --> 00:37:37,421 foreign and domestic. 556 00:37:37,505 --> 00:37:39,590 If it takes use of force, 557 00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:42,176 they are authorized in order to do so. 558 00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:49,392 So when I heard a bunch of tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists 559 00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:52,270 were gonna Naruto run across the desert and come see aliens, 560 00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:56,232 my initial reaction was, "You have got to be kidding." 561 00:37:56,315 --> 00:37:58,693 I've got enough going on, and I don't need this. 562 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:02,405 And we just don't have the capacity or capability 563 00:38:02,488 --> 00:38:05,408 to go root out every single one of those individuals 564 00:38:05,491 --> 00:38:07,493 to figure out who is a threat and who's not. 565 00:38:09,203 --> 00:38:12,665 So I went to my boss, the United States Air Force Warfare Center major general, 566 00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:16,460 informed him what the situation was and we needed some additional troops. 567 00:38:16,544 --> 00:38:18,754 He ordered us to keep this thing under control 568 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:20,256 and stop it from escalating. 569 00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:23,259 We decided to go very aggressive against it. 570 00:38:23,342 --> 00:38:25,761 Get a message out there to let folks know it's not a good idea. 571 00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:31,684 Our number one hope, our goal in life was just please don't let this happen. 572 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:36,731 An Air Force spokesperson told media outlets 573 00:38:36,814 --> 00:38:39,692 that the US Air Force is aware of the Facebook event. 574 00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:41,986 Any attempt to illegally access military… 575 00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:45,906 …military installations or military training areas is dangerous. 576 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,200 The US Air Force always stands ready 577 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,786 to protect America and its assets. 578 00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:53,372 Was pretty much saying, "If you rock up and try and storm that, 579 00:38:53,456 --> 00:38:54,749 we're probably gonna shoot you." 580 00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:58,210 They've warned people not to try to enter the air base. 581 00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:10,181 -There are gun-toting guards… -Yeah. 582 00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:14,101 -…who are authorized to use deadly force. -If you try to storm that. 583 00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:15,895 You will be turned into people jelly. 584 00:39:15,978 --> 00:39:18,022 That's gonna be a civil war at that point, right? 585 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:26,530 -They shot people before. -If your arms aren't up. 586 00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:28,616 The government is not joking. 587 00:39:28,699 --> 00:39:32,703 That's kind of when really the tide changed on this whole thing. 588 00:39:33,287 --> 00:39:36,791 Because it's gone from just being a dipshit on the internet 589 00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:39,293 to now I've got real people 590 00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:43,172 coming to a real place that can get really hurt. 591 00:39:43,714 --> 00:39:46,217 How the fuck did it come to this? 592 00:39:50,221 --> 00:39:53,182 When I saw the Air Force's response, 593 00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:54,725 I thought, "Oh, shit." 594 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:56,143 The gravity of it hit me. 595 00:39:56,227 --> 00:40:00,564 They clearly wanted people to know that we will protect our assets, 596 00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:01,982 and we're not to be fucked with. 597 00:40:07,655 --> 00:40:09,573 I am an accidental filmmaker. 598 00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:13,285 I started studying this UFO topic because, like everybody else, 599 00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:16,414 I was curious if it was true. 600 00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,419 I had no experience, no qualifications. 601 00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:24,713 I just started making documentaries about UFOs, 602 00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:27,508 which took me deeper into the controversy. 603 00:40:29,468 --> 00:40:32,721 I had no idea that going on The Joe Rogan Podcast 604 00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,141 was gonna throw gasoline on the fire. 605 00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:37,435 There's something. There are craft. 606 00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:39,478 They're here. They're not ours. They're here. 607 00:40:39,562 --> 00:40:41,188 What is that about? 608 00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:44,859 So I kind of felt this sense of responsibility. 609 00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:47,611 If you storm a military base, you get fucking shot. 610 00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,656 We'd just make a memorial for stupidity. 611 00:40:50,739 --> 00:40:53,284 We're about to experience natural selection. 612 00:40:53,367 --> 00:40:56,412 I know what can happen when government gets involved 613 00:40:56,495 --> 00:40:58,789 on things about Area 51. It's not good. 614 00:41:00,624 --> 00:41:03,335 So I just sent a message on social media just saying, 615 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:06,464 "Hey, Matty. Wanna talk? Here's my number." 616 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:10,050 I've got a million messages, but this message 617 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:13,304 is sent by a name I've recognized from the podcast. 618 00:41:13,971 --> 00:41:17,475 And boom, I get a text right back. 619 00:41:18,434 --> 00:41:20,269 We started chitchatting back and forth. 620 00:41:21,896 --> 00:41:23,898 I talked with Matty. 621 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:26,025 I said, "I know the UFO world." 622 00:41:26,108 --> 00:41:28,486 "There's a lot of insanity and craziness." 623 00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:30,738 I was worried 624 00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:34,700 that what Matty was saying would spark idiots 625 00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:38,287 to go up to the gate and try to sneak in. 626 00:41:38,996 --> 00:41:40,372 I wouldn't wanna be responsible 627 00:41:40,456 --> 00:41:42,291 for all those people coming out to the desert. 628 00:41:44,293 --> 00:41:48,797 I tell him the messages I was getting had started to get a bit fucked up. 629 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,601 You've got people threatening to kill other people. 630 00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:04,104 You've got people threatening to kill the guards at the base. 631 00:42:05,272 --> 00:42:07,566 You've got people threatening to kill me. 632 00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:16,575 And that kind of freaked me out a little bit. 633 00:42:17,076 --> 00:42:19,411 If you're getting that and you're not used to that, 634 00:42:19,495 --> 00:42:21,664 that shit is scary, and it's devastating. 635 00:42:24,583 --> 00:42:27,127 One day, I was working the shift at the bar. 636 00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:29,129 The phone rang. 637 00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:36,387 And a gentleman told me he had me in his sights, meaning crosshairs. 638 00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:41,475 And that my blood was gonna look really good 639 00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:43,978 on the color of shirt that I was wearing that day. 640 00:42:44,895 --> 00:42:48,065 The only way that anybody could see what I was wearing 641 00:42:48,148 --> 00:42:51,026 was looking through the window at the end of the bar. 642 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:55,781 It was terrifying. 643 00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:01,787 Connie called us and said, "Hey, uh, there's been some threats." 644 00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,749 We did our best to investigate those. 645 00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,043 We didn't know where the threats could be coming from. 646 00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:12,381 Were they locals? Were they foreigners? We had no idea. 647 00:43:13,966 --> 00:43:15,384 Around the same time, I got a call. 648 00:43:19,179 --> 00:43:20,931 It was about a couple of people, 649 00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:24,560 um, prowling around the Area 51 bus. 650 00:43:25,769 --> 00:43:29,940 The people who take that bus are just regular folks who work at the base. 651 00:43:30,024 --> 00:43:34,278 I thought, "Oh, my God, someone probably thinks they know secrets about Area 51." 652 00:43:35,529 --> 00:43:37,072 So we sent a patrol car. 653 00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:42,661 There are two YouTubers. 654 00:43:42,745 --> 00:43:45,581 And they were livestreaming the Area 51 bus, 655 00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:47,166 trying to peek in the windows. 656 00:43:48,876 --> 00:43:51,629 The officer asked 'em to stop filming him. 657 00:43:51,712 --> 00:43:55,132 You know, people became upset that were watching the livestream. 658 00:43:57,384 --> 00:44:01,639 And they basically give out our phone numbers. 659 00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:11,815 People started threatening me, started threatening the department. 660 00:44:11,899 --> 00:44:16,070 And so in a really short period of time, it got out of hand, 661 00:44:16,153 --> 00:44:17,613 and it got out of hand in a hurry. 662 00:44:25,996 --> 00:44:28,540 They crashed our phone systems. 663 00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,252 And that was a small incident. 664 00:44:33,879 --> 00:44:36,715 When we looked at what just those two people could do 665 00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:39,677 with their small audience and their livestream… 666 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,097 Wow. What could two million people do? 667 00:44:45,182 --> 00:44:48,310 This is something we can't handle. We need help. 668 00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:52,314 At that point, the county actually declared a state of emergency. 669 00:44:52,898 --> 00:44:55,442 Lincoln County officials, they are looking to declare a state of… 670 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:59,446 …emergency declaration because of the Storm Area 51 event. 671 00:44:59,530 --> 00:45:01,281 County leaders, the sheriff's department… 672 00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:03,450 ...fearing a public safety nightmare. 673 00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:04,660 It's, like, very concerning. 674 00:45:04,743 --> 00:45:07,955 When you think of a state of emergency you think of, like, a pandemic or a fire. 675 00:45:08,706 --> 00:45:13,085 You know, it means that they're planning for something bad to happen. 676 00:45:13,836 --> 00:45:15,713 It changed the whole face of everything. 677 00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:18,215 This became not a Lincoln County thing. 678 00:45:18,298 --> 00:45:20,634 This became a government situation. 679 00:45:34,273 --> 00:45:36,024 Matthew was at his friend's house. 680 00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,528 I was in the bedroom putting my makeup on. 681 00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:41,572 I'm totally not dressed. 682 00:45:41,655 --> 00:45:44,408 I'm in, like, jammies, no shoes on. 683 00:45:47,745 --> 00:45:49,788 Then there was a knock at the door. 684 00:45:56,420 --> 00:45:58,881 Is this the residence of Matthew Roberts? 685 00:46:03,260 --> 00:46:06,346 I text, uh, Matthew and said, "You need to come home." 686 00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:07,848 "The FBI's here." 56773

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